In another sense, this is no laughing matter. Bachmann may be a clown, but she is one with access to the levers of power in the United States government, and she's using them to engage in a McCarthy-like witch-hunt against Muslim Americans. Democratic Representative Keith Ellison, Bachmann's colleague from Minnesota and the sole Muslim member of Congress, debunked her and her tactics strongly. But something this serious really needed an elder statesman from Bachmann's own party to shut this shit down.

Enter John McCain.

McCain addressed the floor of the Senate in the above video, and said in his speech, "These sinister accusations rest solely on a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations of members of Huma's family, none of which have been shown to harm or threaten the United States in any way. These attacks have no logic, no basis, and no merit and they need to stop. They need to stop now."